If your project is as simple as this then yes, a framework would be overkill for you. The people that benefit from Laravel use a lot of its features and aren’t

If your project is as simple as this then yes, a framework would be overkill for you. The people that benefit from Laravel use a lot of its features and aren’t willing to waste time rewriting them for themselves. In the businesses I have worked at, if we had spent the whole time building the stuff that Laravel already does for us then we’d have gone broke really quickly.